Jennifer Glick
@jengdemography.bsky.social
Demographer, Sociologist, Migration and Family Researcher
Disruption of global research at NIH is endangering people in the United States and around the world. 27unihted.substack.com/p/disruption... Foreign collaborations have been interrupted and discouraged and foreign scientists in the United States are working in an increasingly hostile environment.
Disruption of global research is endangering people in the United States and around the world
Concern 8 of the Bethesda Declaration: One Year Later
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BREAKING: Trump admin proposes major #2030Census changes that would reshape voting maps, including no race & ethnicity questions and excluding non-U.S. citizens without a green card from a count that 14th Amendment says must include “whole number of persons in each state” www.npr.org/2026/09/09/n...
Trump officials propose sweeping changes to the census that would reshape voting maps
A Trump census proposal would stop asking about race and exclude millions of U.S. residents from a count that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."
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The National Institutes of Health has named a pediatric neurologist with controversial views on autism and vaccine safety to helm the agency’s child health institute. https://scim.ag/4xUyXcD
Neurologist with antivaccine views to lead NIH’s child health institute
Appointment of John Gaitanis increases concern that scientific qualifications are no longer driving leadership picks
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New Substack from @27unihted.bsky.social just dropped breaking down decreases in NIH funding by institute and PI race. TL;DR biggest decreases in funding between 2024-2025 are for Black and Latino scientists
Disparities in success rates at NIH: inequality across institutes, race, and more
To date in FY26, awards by month for all extramural grants are following the same trajectory as in FY25 with only about two months remaining in the fiscal year
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Love this timeline where we are fact-checking government claims about teenage sperm count… But glad that @alisongemmill.bsky.social & @srhayford.bsky.social answered the call! www.factcheck.org/2026/07/rfk-... #demography #fertility #publichealth
RFK Jr.’s Flawed Claims About Sperm Count and Fertility - FactCheck.org
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has baselessly tied alleged declines in sperm counts among teenagers to a “fertility crisis” or an “explosion in infertility.”
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We have joined the Association of Population Centers, @apduorg.bsky.social, @copafs.bsky.social, and @icpsr.bsky.social for this statement on the Department of Commerce's new order on Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products buff.ly/kofjV6m
Statement on Commerce’s Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products
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Nominate your excellent colleague, collaborator or cohort member (self nominations are welcome too but I couldn't come up with a first person alliteration).
Population Association of America@popassocamerica.bsky.social · 7mo agoHelp shape the future of the field! Nominate yourself or a colleague for a PAA leadership role. Our member-driven community thrives on the time, talent, and expertise of volunteers—and now’s your chance to be part of it. Nominations close tomorrow: buff.ly/kWc1s0O
Another highly cited article from JMF's 2020 Decade in Review examined the previous decade of research on immigrant families: tinyurl.com/3axa9829 by Jennifer Van Hook & @jengdemography.bsky.social #ThrowbackThursday #TBT #FamilyScience #SocialScience #SocialScienceResearch #ImmigrantFamilies
Join the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights for the first webinar in a new three-part series pulling back the curtain on the realities of hostile immigration policies and the rapid response work unfolding across our programs and communities. Register Today ➡️ https://bit.ly/4kHuxR2
Join us for a Vigil in State College to honor Renee Nicole Good, and others who have been killed by ICE agents. Saturday from noon to 1pm. Allen St. Gates www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
ICE Out For Good - Vigil in State College, PA · Mobilize
Wednesday, January 7th, an American citizen was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This killing is part of a broader pattern of unchecked violence, impunity...
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America First, at America’s first public university.
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
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Heads up: Job opportunity with great colleagues!!!
Have any NCES data users gotten a disclosure review approved for a paper/report since spring? I've been waiting for 6+ months 😞
Bumping this one up again. Co-funded position by our interdisciplinary Social Science Research Institute at Penn State.
Penn State Anthropology@psuanthro.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 Hey! We’re hiring a human reproductive ecologist! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Penn State Geography invites prospective grad students to an upcoming online info session about our graduate degree programs on Thursday, October 23rd from 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT. Register to participate: tinyurl.com/psugeoinfo. #academicsky #geosky 🛟 #gradschool #gis #research #urban #pennstate #aag
It was really fun getting texts and calls from old friends that they heard me on NPR this morning! Really enjoyed talking to NPR's @pien-huang.bsky.social about #water needs and #dehydration - have a listen! @psuanthro.bsky.social @pennstateuniv.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
What's the deal with electrolyte drinks — do you need them to stay hydrated?
Seems like nobody's drinking plain water these days. Electrolyte packets or colorful sports drinks are everywhere. But do you need them?
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Full statement is now on our website apdu.org?p=5813739 #econsky
APDU Statement on Firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner – Association of Public Data Users
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APDU@apduorg.bsky.social · last yr."The moment many of us in the public data community have feared has come to pass: the President has fired the head of a federal statistical agency because the data are politically inconvenient." Read our newsletter for the full statement
"more casual users of federal data continue to analyze the deck chairs on the federal Titanic, unaware of the coming iceberg as federal cuts to staffing, contracting, advisory committees, and funding rip a giant hole in our nation’s heretofore unsinkable data apparatus" fas.org/publication/...
The Data We Take for Granted
As the former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, I know first-hand how valuable and vulnerable our nation’s federal data assets are. Like many things in life, we’ve been taking our data for granted and will m...
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🔥🔥 Close to 600 people turning out in solidarity today at Canal Basin Park to say America has #NoKings ❌👑
"There are laws governing the conduct of federal surveys, and this idea that an email from DOGE is going to impact federal data collection, superseding existing federal law, is what concerns me" says APDU Board member Mary Jo Mitchell in an interview w @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...
When DOGE comes for the Census
The hits from DOGE are not the only problems for the Census Bureau ahead of 2030.
politico.com
"The due process clause of the Fifth Amendment says no person can be ‘deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.’ It doesn’t say ‘citizen.’”
Trump Challenges Migrants’ Due Process Rights, Undercutting Bedrock Principle
White House officials are eschewing normal legal processes as they rush to ramp up deportations, saying there is no time to afford unauthorized immigrants any rights — and that they don’t deserve them...
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#WhySocialScience? Because We Need Good Data to Predict the Future - New post from @mmather.bsky.social and Beth Jarosz of @prbdata.bsky.social 📈
Because We Need Good Data to Predict the Future — Why Social Science?
Where do you live? How old are you? Did you finish college? Are you married? Do you have any children? Have you recently moved? What type of job do you have? These may seem like mundane questions,…
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Now that #AERA2025 has concluded, sharing our AERA Open special topics call for proposals, "Centering Civil Rights Protections in Schools in the US" that I'm co-editing with @maithgopalan.bsky.social. Please share widely & reach out with questions. Due May 15. www.aera.net/Portals/38/S...
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?
Dramatic Cuts to Ed. Data Programs Will Have Far-Reaching Consequences, Researchers Warn www.edweek.org/policy-polit... via @edweek.bsky.social @evieblad.bsky.social
Dramatic Cuts to Ed. Data Programs Will Have Far-Reaching Consequences, Researchers Warn
Education research organizations asked Congress to intervene in cuts to ed. data, research staff.
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Another successful Social Science Advocacy Day in the books! Thank you to all our wonderful advocates and to our sponsors. The work continues! #WhySocialScience #COSSA2025
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
